Vaurie's nightjar

Vaurie's nightjar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Genus: Caprimulgus
Species: C. centralasicus
Binomial name
Caprimulgus centralasicus
Vaurie, 1960

The Vaurie's nightjar (Caprimulgus centralasicus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is endemic to China.

Its natural habitat is cold desert. However, it is threatened by habitat loss. This bird is only known from a single 1929 specimen from Xinjiang, China. It has never been found again, and it is quite possibly invalid as it has not yet been compared to the similar subspecies of the European nightjar, C. europaeus plumipes, which occurs at the locality where C. centralasicus was found.

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